Bob Collins
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
When Amanda Kehler, who runs a cafe and antique store in Steinbach, Manitoba(about 90 miles northwest of Warroad), was out antiquing a week or so ago, she thought the stack of old newspapers and documents she bought for a dollar was a pretty good deal.
It might have been a priceless one because this letter from Earl Sorel was in it. Read more →
If the school principal can ride a bike to school, calling it off isn’t a good decision.
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The person I picked up while Lyfting last night at the airport was exhausted. “It was like flying to Los Angeles,” he said of the more than three-hour flight from Boston. He was the victim of nature to an extent rarely seen, and he’s the yang to the yin of the focus of stories about Read more →
You have to give it to the kids in Milaca. They don’t let a little — or a lot — of snow stop them from getting to class. Read more →
Today’s story is about seeing the big picture, particularly for parents who are outraged that school has been canceled around here today and their kids are safe at home and presenting quite an inconvenience. Read more →
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The awards for biggest breast, biggest rear end, and thinnest body were handed out at last spring’s award before the American Civil Liberties Union sent a formal letter to Tremper High School today warning that it might sue for sexual harassment. Read more →
Today’s tweet from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety — and the accompanying picture of Megan Goeltz — is about as infuriating as it gets.
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We’re more than a little interested in whether the unnamed person in the Robbinsdale Cooper High School Class of ’71 ever amounted to anything now that she’s come forward with her overdue copy of Poetry and the Age. Read more →
The notion of a Super Moon wasn’t even a “thing” until March 2011, when the moon came within 123 miles of the closest its ever been to earth Read more →
There are really only two kinds of dog owners: humans and pigs.
A walk — any walk — reveals this fact with the number of dog droppings that weren’t picked up. How hard can this be?
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Travis Paulson, of Eveleth, has contacted all of the politicians who represent him and hasn’t been impressed with their response to the problems of hundreds of thousands of people who have diabetes: the cost of insulin is — or getting to be — beyond their means.
Paulson should know. Read more →
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins, who was unimpressive in leading his team to missing the playoffs, had the temerity to like the weather in Florida. Read more →
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